EP0529582B1 - Vibrationswellenmotor - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a vibration type motor according to the preamble of claim 1, in which travelling waves are generated in an elastic body to convert wave energy thereof into a thrust or into a torque. More particularly, the invention relates to a travelling wave type motor having a long life with little reduction in performance by an arrangement to make generation of standing waves spatially changeable, which are sources of travelling waves.
- a typical example of conventional travelling wave type ultrasonic motors is an annular motor as described in "Introduction to Ultrasonic Motors" (Sougo Denshi Shuppan, 1991).
- the annular motor is structured as follows.
- a vibrator is formed such that piezo-electric elements, which are electro-mechanical energy conversion elements, are adhered to a back face of an annular elastic body to form travelling waves on a surface of the elastic body.
- Fig. 2 is a drawing to show an arrangement of piezo-electric elements in the vibrator of the annular motor.
- a phase and B phase with a spatial phase difference of 90 degrees in the vibrator on the right side and on the left side in Fig. 2.
- the piezo-electric element plates alternate the polarity as shown.
- a pair of positive and negative piezo-electric plates in each phase correspond to one wave length.
- Respective voltages different in time phase difference by 90 degrees are applied to the A and B phases.
- a travelling wave is generated as a result of synthesis of a standing wave generated by the A phase with a standing wave generated by the B phase.
- a wave generated is a superposition of a travelling wave of main component with other travelling wave components different in frequency and with standing wave components.
- the standing wave components are fixed relating to the arrangement of piezo-electric elements, so that the moved body is frequently hit at friction faces located at antinodes of the standing waves.
- a long operation of the travelling wave type motor with such an arrangement results in abrasion at fixed positions of the vibrator, that is, at the locations of antinodes. This reduces a surface evenness of a working face causing a dispersion of flatness.
- Vibrations obtained from ordinary piezo-electric bodies and elastic bodies industrially used have amplitudes on an order of at most several microns.
- the dispersion of flatness on a working face causes unevenness of torque or of thrust, which is a main factor of decrease in performance of actuator. This in turn results in lowering of durability.
- the EP-A-0 424 139 discloses a vibration type motor according to the preamble of claim 1.
- the movement of the rotor is effected either by changing over the phases of the cyclic signals, to thereby enable a stepwise drive by shifting standing waves, or by effecting an on/off operation for a continuous drive by travelling waves.
- a predetermined relationship between the phases of individual ones of the cyclic signals and the corresponding conversion elements is defined by the hardware arrangement.
- the EP-A-0 495 665 describes a vibration motor which is is rotated by a progressive wave generated by two standing wave vibrations.
- Fig. 1 shows a preferred embodiment of an ultrasonic motor (wave driven motor) according to the present invention.
- a vibration body is a stator (vibrator) 10 of ring.
- Piezo-electric element pieces 11 are positioned on the stator 10, covering the entire ring circumference.
- the piezo-electric element pieces 11 have the same direction of polarization and a small equal width.
- the piezo-electric element pieces 11 identical in polarization direction are set electrically independently of each other on the stator.
- a flexible print substrate (not shown) is provided on surfaces of the piezo-electric element pieces 11 to apply an arbitrary voltage to each of the piezo-electric element pieces 11.
- Figs. 1B and 1C show a drive method to generate travelling waves equivalent to those in the conventional example as shown in Fig. 2.
- an A phase is composed of four sets of alternate A0 and A1 phases each of which includes four consecutive pieces of piezo-electric element, corresponding to the A phase in Fig. 2.
- the A phase of the present embodiment occupies four wave lengths (4 ⁇ ).
- Two piezo-electric element pieces are interposed between the A phase and a B phase. That is, there is a spacing of a quarter-wave length ( ⁇ /4) between the A phase and the B phase.
- the B phase includes four sets of alternate B0 and B1 phases each of which composed of four consecutive piezo-electric element pieces.
- a circuit to drive the piezo-electric element pieces in the A phase and in the B phase has a structure to manage an assignment of the piezo-electric element pieces to respective power sources using a multiplexer.
- Oscillations (driving wave forms) of the power sources are four phases of oscillating waves of sine wave, cosine wave, and inverted waves thereof as shown in Fig. 1C. For example, if the piezo-electric element pieces in the A0 phase radially extend, the piezo-electric element pieces in the A1 phase radially contract, forming a standing wave by the A phase with antinodes in the A1 phases.
- the combination of piezo-electric element groups each of which is composed of four consecutive pieces may be shifted for example by a piezo-electric element piece so as to shift the positions of antinodes of the standing wave by a width of a piezo-electric element piece.
- An automatic operation or a periodical manual operation may shift the assignment of each phase as a whole to change the generation position of the standing waves.
- a spatial phase difference may be controlled by increasing or decreasing a spacing between the A phase (A0 and A1 phases) and the B phase (B0 and B1 phases).
- Fig. 3 is a circuit diagram of the drive circuit to automatically shift the assignment of A and B phases using a multiplexer.
- the respective drive signals of A0 phase, of A1 phase, of B0 phase, and of B1 phase as shown in Fig. 1C are amplified by respective amplifiers 12, and amplified signals are output from the amplifiers 12 to the multiplexer 13.
- the multiplexer 13 has output terminals on its output side, corresponding to the entire piezo-electric element pieces 11 of the vibrator 10.
- the respective output terminals are electrically connected to the piezo-electric element pieces through respective conductive wires 14 of flexible print substrate.
- the output terminals 13-1 to 13-72 of the multiplexer 13 are respectively independently connected to the piezo-electric element pieces 11-1 to 11-72 of the vibrator 10.
- the multiplexer 13 outputs, in response to a control signal, drive signals of A0, A1, B0 and B1 phases, and a signal of ground level from arbitrary output terminals.
- Another example is a shift by a piezo-electric element piece from the above state as follows: the output terminals (13-2 to 13-5), (13-10 to 13-13), (13-18 to 13-21), (13-26 to 13-29) output the signal of B0 phase; the output terminals (13-6 to 13-9), (13-14 to 13-17), (13-22 to 13-25), (13-30 to 13-33) the signal of B1 phase; the output terminals (13-68 to 13-71), (13-60 to 13-63), (13-52 to 13-55), (13-44 to 13-47) the signal of A1 phase; the output terminals (13-64 to 13-67), (13-56 to 13-59), (13-48 to 13-51), (13-40 to 13-43) the signal of A0 phase; the other terminals the signal of ground level.
- the multiplexer 13 may effect an arbitrary shift of combination of groups with each group comprised of four piezo-electric element pieces in response to a control signal in the similar manner to the above.
- the piezo-electric element pieces are set independent of each other to increase degrees of freedom for vibration application method, whereby permitting various drive methods. Also, if the vibration application is carried out in such a drive method that two piezo-electric element pieces correspond to a half-wave length, a mode of half period may be generated in the above embodiment. In other words, a single motor can change its properties of torque and of speed.
- Fig. 4 shows an example of a circuit to form the signals of A0 to B1 phases in the embodiment.
- a signal forming circuit A0' produces a signal of A0.
- An inverter circuit inverts a signal of A0 from the signal forming circuit A0' to obtain a signal of A1.
- a 90° shifter shifts the signal of A0 by 90 degrees to obtain a signal of B0.
- Another inverter circuit inverts a signal of B0 to form a signal of B1.
- electrostrictive elements may be employed instead of the piezo-electric elements as electro-mechanical energy conversion element.
- a motor is of the type in which a plurality of polarized piezo-electric elements are disposed on a vibrator and in which cyclic signals different in phase are applied to the respective elements to form standing waves to drive a moved body.
- An identical direction is employed for a direction of polarization of the piezo-electric elements in the motor: A plurality of consecutive elements are chosen for each of element groups.
- a cyclic signal of predetermined phase is applied to predetermined element groups.
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- Vibrationsmotor mit:a) einer Vibrationseinrichtung (10);b) einem auf der Vibrationseinrichtung (10) angeordneten elektromechanischen Energiewandlerelementabschnitt, wobei der Wandlerelementabschnitt aus einer Vielzahl jeweils mit derselben Polarisation polarisierten Wandlerelementen (11) besteht; und c) einer Ansteuerschaltung zum Anlegen von einen Phasenunterschied aufweisenden ersten und zweiten zyklischen Signale (A0, A1) an erste Elementgruppen bzw. zweite Elementgruppen, die jeweils aus einer Gruppe aufeinanderfolgender Wandlerelemente bestehen, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daßd) die Ansteuerschaltung eine Wechselschaltung (13) mit jeweils in unabhängiger Weise mit den Wandlerelementen (11) verbundenen Ausgangsanschlüssen (13-1 bis 13-72) aufweist,e) wobei die Wechselschaltung (13) ausgestaltet ist zum Ausgeben der ersten und zweiten zyklischen Signale (A0, A1) an beliebigen Ausgangsanschlüssen im Ansprechen auf ein Steuersignal.
- Vibrationsmotor gemäß Anspruch 1,
dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß
die Ansteuerschaltung auch einen Phasenunterschied aufweisende dritte und vierte zyklische Signale (B0, B1) an dritte Elementgruppen bzw. vierte Elementgruppen anlegt, die jeweils eine Gruppe aufeinanderfolgender Wandlerelemente in dem Wandlerelementabschnitt umfassen, wobei sich die Phasen der dritten und vierten zyklischen Signale (B0, B1) auch von denen der ersten und zweiten zyklischen Signale (A0, A1) unterscheiden. - Vibrationsmotor nach Anspruch 2,
dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß
das erste (A0) und das zweite (A1) zyklische Signal einen gegenseitigen Phasenunterschied von 180° aufweisen, und das erste (A0) und das dritte (B0) zyklische Signal einen gegenseitigen Phasenunterschied von 90° aufweisen, und das dritte (B0) und das vierte (B1) zyklische Signal einen gegenseitigen Phasenunterschied von 180° aufweisen. - Vibrationsmotor nach Anspruch 4,
dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß
eine Breite einer jeden Gruppe aufeinanderfolgender Wandlerelemente λ/2 beträgt, wobei λ eine Wellenlänge einer durch den Wandlerelementabschnitt erzeugten Wanderwelle kennzeichnet.
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JP3213637A JP3043124B2 (ja) | 1991-08-26 | 1991-08-26 | 進行波型モータ装置 |
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